Pros

Pro

Free no advertisements

Google Play Music is a free service for storing and streaming ones library that has zero advertisements in the interface as well as the playing music.

Pro

Upload library through browser

Google has added the option of uploading songs through the browser with the help of a Chrome extension download as well as directly through the desktop Chrome app.

Pro

Instant mixes

Google Play Music can make smart recommendations for playlist by the user just picking an artist or song they want recommendations formed from.

Pro

Also offers streaming service

GPM can be used as a normal music player but also as a streaming service like Spotify.

Cons

Con

Confusing to use

Con

Status bar not sensitive nor customizable

There is no way to go easily go back a specific amount of time (for example: Audible has a button that allows you to go back 30 seconds).The status bar could be more time specific. If you want to go back to a particular segment of listening, there is no way to know exactly where you will land. You have to do some kind of guessing and it is annoying. Lot of time wasted in searching in a blind manner.

Con

Quality only as high as 320kbps MP3s

There is no option to listen to lossless music, even if that is what the user has uploaded. The highest quality is 320kbps MP3s. If a lossless track has been uploaded and the user then downloads the track at a later date the file will also only be a 320kbps MP3.

Con

No way to start the app in ones library

The app offers no way to actually start up in ones library, either in the desktop Chrome app or the Android app. For those that only use this app for listening to their purchased or uploaded music this is pretty annoying as there s no real need for the front page of recommendations and activity. This doe snot necessarily need to be some social platform but just a way to listen to ones music, really the user should have the choice, especially if they are paying for this service through purchased music or their streaming service.

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